The court in Kemerovo arrested a photographer who shot a rally after a fire in the shopping center

The Central District Court of Kemerovo arrested for five days a photographer and volunteer of the headquarters of Alexei Navalny Alexander Balashov, who came to a rally on March 27 due to a fire in the Winter Cherry shopping center. Balashov himself told Mediazone about this.

According to him, the police in the protocols indicated that he was trying to break the fences and cursed obscenities. It was drawn up for the protocols for two articles: 19.3 Code of Administrative Offenses (disobedience to the order of a representative of the authorities) and 20.1 Administrative Code (petty hooliganism). He was detained on Saturday morning on the way to work.

Balashov said that in the morning of March 27, the Square of the Soviets was blocked, police stood around the perimeter. There is the building of the regional administration, approximately during the mass action, the governor Tuleyev was at a meeting with the participation of President Vladimir Putin.

During the rally, Balashov, he said, went to the policeman, asked why the fences were needed, and asked him to introduce himself. Subsequently, the crowd broke into the square, but the photographer says that he did not participate in this.

A fire in the Kemerovo shopping center "Winter Cherry" occurred on March 25, 64 people were killed. Two days later, hundreds of citizens reached the Square of the Soviets, among the stated requirements was the resignation of Aman Tuleyev, who headed the region for 20 years. The governor said that "not relatives of the dead went to the square at all, these are those who are constantly Buzoteritis." Among the speakers at the rally was Igor Vostrikov - Kemerovo, who lost his wife, three children and sister in a fire.